If I understand what you are trying to do, prehaps this will answer: http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC171
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 07:11:06PM +0200, raptor wrote: > hi, > > I'm tring a loginfo-script.. and I got lock problems.. > OK first I expected that 'cause the cvs-commit is already finished at > log-info-stage all locks should be already released so I can switch to my > working directory and update it (read) .... but I have zero success and had > to go to Repository to remove locks manually... > I've read in the manual but the explanation of the LOCKS is too 'blury' .. > First of all I have to create #cvs.lock dir, but how can I create such dir > if I don't know where exactly (in which cvs-reposiroty dir) I have to create > this one (i don't need it anyway)... I'm just chdir-ing to one of the > working-copies (not the one that commits at the moment) and then tring "cvs > update" ... > Is there any way to tell previous/parent(maybe) process to release his lock > so I can freely do my job.... Anyway, I'm not tring to change repository or > work directly with it, so I don't need to request read-locks ... > > And yes I read -central up-to-date files- thread and the solution with cron > script... The problem is that this doesn't work for me... I and other > developers can't wait 15 min to see their changes, they have to see their > changes almost at the time after they commited their file .... And the times > when I will have two developers commiting simultaneously are very, very > rare.. > > SO THE MAIN PROBLEM STAYS : HOW CAN I TELL THE PROCESS THAT STARTED LOG-INFO > SCRIPT TO RELEASE HIS LOCKS, SO LOG-INFO CAN DO HIS JOB .... (again mine > script don't work directly with the repository files so it can't broke > repository internal data, it just do "cvs update"). > One more thing at the time the log-info script is executed everything is > commited successfuly so I don't see a reason for it to hold this lock.. > > Thanx alot for your pation reading this and for the answers of-course :")) > ===== > iVAN > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== > PS. I'm new to CVS and hope I'm not missing something obvious, but I think > not :") > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] V-Net: 622-3286 Phone: 1-719-535-3286 Pager: 1-800-724-3624 # 140-1311 _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs